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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan on education

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Abu Bakr on education

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren on education

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Harvey S. Firestone on education

Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips on education

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
Annie Dillard on education

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound on education

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
Allen Klein on education

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft on education

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
Al Green on education

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
Angela Merkel on education

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg on education

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt on education

Man is what he reads.
Joseph Brodsky on education

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
Tammy Faye Bakker on education

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan on education

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
Leon Spinks on education

Every educated person is a future enemy.
Martin Bormann on education

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Joseph Brodsky on education

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark on education